Managing eHealth

1. Introducing eHealth: Past, Present and Future
Diane Whitehouse, Petra Wilson

Part I. Politics — Policy and Institutions

2. On the Creation of AIM and Its First Six Years
Niels Rossing

3. European eHealth Agenda, 1990–2010
Ilias Iakovidis

4. From Governments to Governance: An Emerging Paradigm in eHealth
Joan Dzenowagis

5. New Directions in eHealth Governance in Europe
Zoi Kolitsi, Michèle Thonnet

6. The Emergence of EU Law and Policy on eHealth
Petra Wilson

Part II. People — Professionals, Patients and Consumers

7. Physicians’ Perspectives on eHealth
Birgit Beger, Michael Wilks

8. Nursing’s Pivotal Role in eHealth: A Brief, Selective History
Nicholas R. Hardiker

9. The Emerging Role of the Health Informatician as a Key Player on eHealth
Jean Roberts

10. eHealth for Patient-Driven Healthcare
Diane Whitehouse, Magdalene Rosenmöller

11. Dynamic Quality Control for a Changing Internet
Célia Boyer, Mayoni Ranasinghe

12. Social Networks for Health: A Personal Snapshot
Denise Silber

Part III. Practice — New Ways of Working and Other Challenges

13. The Role of eHealth in Supporting Care Coordination
Nick Goodwin, Albert Alonso

14. The eHealth Contribution to Person-Centred Care
Dipak Kalra, Jörg Artmann, Veli Stroetmann, Niels Boye

15. HIT: The Leadership Role of Hospitals
Antoine Geissbühler, Josep M. Piqué, Magdalene Rosenmöller

16. Recent US Experience with Health ICT
Don Eugene Detmer

17. Reshaping Health in a World of Mobile Phones
Patricia Mechael, Ada Kwan, Avrille Hanzel, Chelsea Hedquist

18. eHealth in Drug Discovery and Disease Research
Mats Sundgren

19. The European Virtual Physiological Human Initiative
Vanessa Díaz-Zuccarini, Rainer Thiel, Veli Stroetmann

20. Making the Economic Case for eHealth
Tom Jones

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Public Health, Business Information Systems, Management, Innovation/Technology Management, Nursing Management/Nursing Research, Popular Science in Medicine and Health